[Python-ideas] Updating PEP 315: do-while loops

[Ben Finney]

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>
writes:

> Hmm, so why add another keyword like "do", instead of just giving
> "while" a default condition "True", so that you could write
> 
>     while:
>         state = do_stuff_here()
>         if predicate(state): break
> 
> I think that the missing condition at the top makes it pretty clear
> that the end condition must be inside the loop.

Or that there isn't an end condition at all.

I don't see how this indicator is any less clear than the current
spelling::

    while True:
        state = do_stuff_here()
        if predicate(state): break

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Ben Finney